{"id":2018,"date":"2021-10-27T09:34:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-27T09:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lgildv5i97.onrocket.site\/answers\/?post_type=question&#038;p=2018"},"modified":"2021-10-27T09:35:06","modified_gmt":"2021-10-27T09:35:06","slug":"solved-windows-95-98-goes-to-dos-command-prompt-on-startup","status":"publish","type":"question","link":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/windows-95\/windows-95-98-goes-to-dos-command-prompt-on-startup\/170920.html","title":{"rendered":"Solved Windows 95 \/ 98 Goes To DOS Command Prompt On Startup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had an old working Quantex computer that ran windows 95 (possibly windows 3.3). A few years ago, the motherboard stopped functioning properly and we could not start up the computer. Recently, I took the hard disk out of the old computer and put it in a Dell computer that runs Windows XP. When I pressed the power button, the screen that displays the computer&#8217;s information came on, but immediately switched to a black screen that said &#8220;Starting MS-DOS&#8230;&#8221; It then prompted me to input a command (C:\\&#8230;). What do I do to make it run the windows 95 operating System?<br \/>\n(I&#8217;m not that fimiliar with older computers and MS-DOS)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"iawp_total_views":30},"question-category":[69],"question_tags":[],"class_list":["post-2018","question","type-question","status-publish","hentry","question-category-windows-95"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question\/2018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/question"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"question-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question-category?post=2018"},{"taxonomy":"question_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question_tags?post=2018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}